Posts Tagged ‘The Hives’

Having already announced all of their main stage headliners (Avenged Sevenfold, Guns N’ Roses, Ozzy Osbourne) for next year’s event in the space of week, the organisers of Download Festival have now announced a further handful of bands that will be joining the 2018 weekend line-up.

Having just wrapped up the UK leg of their world tour in support of their brand new full-length album, ‘Villains’, Californian hard rockers Queens Of The Stone Age have now confirmed they’ll be returning to our shores next year for a special all-dayer.

They’re heading over for a UK tour in less than a week, but now Green Day and a bunch of support acts have been confirmed to appear at this year’s British Summer Time Hyde Park, presented by Barclaycard.

Another years means yet another Download Festival weekend, one of the leading British music festivals for all of your needs in rock, metal, punk and everything inbetween. With a stellar line-up which featured what could arguably be their best main stage headliners to date, we of course got stuck in with the mud, beer and fun that the festival is more than known for.

Welcome to part six in a series of features previewing this year’s Download Festival. Each week, we shall be looking at a particular genre or scene that will be represented at the festival. You may have heard some of the more established bands, but these previews may introduce you to similar bands that are in the same vain.

In part six, we will be looking at bands that you might often find gracing the pages of Kerrang!, specifically those that play alternative rock and pop-punk.

Britiain’s legendary rock festival weekend Download Festival has just added over thirty more bands to its 2013 line-up, which includes Limp Bizkit, Korn, Cancer Bats, Parkway Drive and more. You can check out the festival’s updated poster below, plus a full list of the new bands that have joined the bill:

The Hives are back to their old tricks with album number five, ‘Lex Hives’. It seems that they were some what disgruntled with their old label, so they broke off and made their own: Disque Hives. ‘Lex Hives’ was created entirely by the band themselves, writing, recording, producing; they did it all. It’s good to see that a band has such a hands on approach at this point in their career.